Ah, copyedits, when I find myself leaving comments like "People who speak in semicolons are not to be trusted."

That being said, other than a few cases where my vernacular is apparently throwing them off, this is a Very Good Copyedit, which caught several continuity bits and has been otherwise unobtrusive and sprinkling Magic Correction Dust over the manuscript.

It's nice, when one has a Terrible Bad No Good Copyedit fresh in one's mind, to have one that is so marvelously professionally done.

Also, for authors just starting out--really, copyedits, 90% of the time, are No Big Deal. They're just somebody going "You misspelled this, did you mean to say this, oh hey, you changed Bob's eye color AGAIN." It's like taking your book to the mechanic for a tune-up.

It's just that the ones we complain about are the ones where the word-mechanic comes in and is like "Okay, so, we found a capybara in your car" and you're like "Yes, I put it there," and they're all "Well, we took it out," and you go "I AM A LICENSED CAPYBARA HAULER PUT IT BACK."

...okay, that metaphor got away from me, but incidentally, that would be an editor's job to fix, not a copyeditor's.

Also, you CAN complain about a copyeditor running amok. This is a known bug and good editors will believe you.

(Since I work with multiple publishers, on the last bad one I actually had a friend who's a higher-up at one of the houses in my DMs going "If this is us, tell me, I WILL MAKE THIS PROBLEM GO AWAY." Alas, 'twas not.)

Anyway. Just your regular reminder that the editor and the copyeditor are there to keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of the reader, and the vast majority are pros who do just that. It's just more fun to complain about the bad ones than acknowledge the great ones.